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[I am Leo]

I put non magma safe floodgates on the volcano that fueles my magma moat, my elegant solution was to overflow the moat into the caverns. It all went well, except I couldn't work out why my framerate was so very very low.

[A Random Passerby]

I... Forgot to make food in my very first fort, and I didn't understand the concept of floodgates.
So, I starved AND drowned my dwarves.

Also, in the older versions, it took me a moment to understand the danger carp posed.

[weenog]

Some of mine span years, you've all seen the learning curve image (or should have).  You are always starting out in DF.  If anyone doesnt know what im talking about with that pic then pipe up and someone will link it, its part of our heritage

I've seen remarks, but no images.

[slowpokez]

Some of mine span years, you've all seen the learning curve image (or should have).  You are always starting out in DF.  If anyone doesnt know what im talking about with that pic then pipe up and someone will link it, its part of our heritage

I've seen remarks, but no images.

[pisskop]

HAH!... Wait why are some crucified on gibbets?

[Loud Whispers]

HAH!... Wait why are some crucified on gibbets?

It happens.

[gzoker]

When you reach the top of the curve you try to convert all your friends to the ways of dwarf fortress. Then they will see the madness in your eyes, and crucify you for your own good.

[Maxmurder]

This is how my first siege went...

"there is only about twenty of them... my 10 man rag-tag military should handle this"

"i wonder what they have for weapons?"

k

"bows and whips... shouldn't be that bad..."

moments later...

"oh god! there all dead!!!... Pull the lever Urist! PULL IT!"

"wait a minute... wheres the main gate lever? what are those Ts? why are there so much blood on the walls?"

k

"trolls..."

[Mageziya]

Many many months (Over a year I think.) ago I tried this game. I had NO IDEA how the farming system worked. I thought I needed a above ground (At this point I only had subterranean crops) farm plot, with a well near by. I don't remember exactly how it went, but I rage quit DF since I knew my dorfs were destined for starvation.

Two months ago, sometime in June, I came back to DF. And, well, here I am now!

Oh yeah, I'm also with everyone else on being horribly mangled by their first siege. Now I only use marksdwarves.

Oh, and back in the amount of time I played before the uber hiatus, I tried using the mouse for everything, which was inaccurate, time consuming, and very frustrating.

And back to my current stretch of playing, I used to give my dwarves 4x4 rooms, before I realized you could cram them in 1x4 rooms and they would be happy.

[krenshala]

Some of mine span years, you've all seen the learning curve image (or should have).  You are always starting out in DF.  If anyone doesnt know what im talking about with that pic then pipe up and someone will link it, its part of our heritage

I've seen remarks, but no images.

Does anyone know what the original game to be shown with the Learning Cliff was?  I remember seeing this back almost a decade ago with Eve Online as the black line (though I agree it works with DF just as well ), but even then I could swear it was an altered image.

[Doughnut189]

I was trying to make a hospital and put a well in it. I didn't understand water pressure in DF so I used a river to feed the well cistern. Poor injured dwarves laid in bed as water flooded the hospital around them.
The hospital door was locked and everyone was ordered to pretend that that door did not exist. The corpses were never recovered.

Another time making a hospital well I used water from the caverns or somewhere. I can't quite remember where it was but apparently it was a bad idea.  Anyway those cave-monster strangler things crawled out of the well and strangled all of the injured dwarves in their hospital beds as they slept.

Anyway another time when I was experimenting with migrant control I made a big room and filled it with chairs, floodgates, and drains. I called it the "Sitting room". I sent all of the recent migrants (2/3 of the fortress) there and pulled the lever. The resulting tantrum spiral was incredible.

Finally I didn't know that trolls could break down floodgates and I dumped a goblin siege into my drowning trap. After spending a few days underwater a troll broke down a floodgate and partially flooded the fortress. Then he and his buddies ran straight to the nursery. It was bad.

[Pon_Katt]

I remember my first siege.  I think and had 4 mounted goblin squads and a troll squad against my 40 dwarf military.  Two dwarves made it back.  I later rebuilt the military, but it was quickly slaughtered in the next siege.

[Xob Ludosmbax]

Some of mine span years, you've all seen the learning curve image (or should have).  You are always starting out in DF.  If anyone doesnt know what im talking about with that pic then pipe up and someone will link it, its part of our heritage

I've seen remarks, but no images.

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Does anyone know what the original game to be shown with the Learning Cliff was?  I remember seeing this back almost a decade ago with Eve Online as the black line (though I agree it works with DF just as well ), but even then I could swear it was an altered image.

I first saw this image with in connection with Eve Online as well, and I was wondering about it too.

The earliest similar image I could find was from 2008: http://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=361613
although there were a few that may have been older. 

The earliest Dwarf Fortress version of the image that I could find was from 2010:
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=18453

Looking at the font, on the Eve image, in "TIME SPENT PLAYING" and "LOTR ONLINE", the T and L appear to be identical, so that indicates that is original text.  OTOH, in "Eve: The Second Genesis", the E and S appear different from the E and S in "TIME SPENT PLAYING", so that is most likely 'shopped.
-- On closer examination, the T and L are ever so slightly different.  The height is the same, but the width is off by a pixel or two.  So, that makes it a copy of a copy. 

in the Dwarf Fortress image, the fonts are completely different for the axis and line labels.  The DF image has much fewer jpg artifacts, so that indicates it is not a copy of the Eve image.  The two axis labels appear to use the same font.  The gap between the blue line and the origin is much smaller in the DF image than in the Eve image.  This indicates that the Eve image is not a copy of the DF image. 

The gif displayed in the post above has much sharper edges than the jpegs, indicating that it is not a descendant of either of these two images.  However, the image size and the dithering on the gif is not seen on the jpegs.  So, there was an earlier version of the DF image that both of these are a copy of. 

http://presentation.drupalgardens.com/book/export/html/101 also is a fairly early version of the file, but it is ever so slightly more blurred than the Eve image.  It is also interesting in that it lacks the background grid.  I would guess that the CMS image is a descendant of the Eve image that went through some fairly major cleanup. 

In short, none of these are the original.  The DF image is not a copy of any of the Eve images I looked at.  The Eve image is not a copy of any of the DF images I looked at.  The DF images would appear to have a more legitimate claim to the throne, but I couldn't find any mention of the DF image until 2 years after the Eve image was seen.  Also, the different font for the labels on the bottom of the DF image indicates, but is not proof of,  a 'shopped image. 

Maybe a more thorough search would be able to find the original, because these aren't it.